First of Venice Design Series Events was Magical as Billed

First of the six events for this year’s Venice Design Series was held last Sunday. It was a tour of the Wing House, made from the wing of a 747 aircraft and designed by Venice’s own architect David Hertz. It is high in the Malibu hills and considered one of the 100 most extraordinary houses in the United States.

Linda Lucks and Jay Griffith absolutely do not stop warming the hearts of Venetians and challenging their imaginations. First it was the Home and Garden show that ran in Venice for more than 25 years and brought people from all over California. Now it is the fourth year of the Venice Design Series. One wonders how these two can keep topping themselves.

First of the six events for this year was held last Sunday. It was a tour of the Wing House, made from the wing of a 747 aircraft and designed by Venice’s own architect David Hertz. It is considered one of the 100 most extraordinary houses in the United States.

In addition to touring the house made from a 747, owner Francie Rehwald’s garden or yard consists of the set from the movie King and I. Originally, the land was owned by set designer and designer extraordinaire of many things, Tony Duquette. Duquette had the set moved to his property. His original house burned and he lived in and on the set for years.

The tour included lunch in the King and I set.

David Hertz and his wife Laura Doss-Hertz just bought an old hunting lodge with 40 acres adjoining Rehwald’s Wing House. They plan to do “something” with it. They allowed all to tour their house also.

The remaining events are shown below. All monies benefit the Venice Community Housing Corporation. For information contact Linda Lucks at llucks@vchcorp.org

Comments (2)

As in the past, the contributors to these fund raisers are promised insider access to the Mayor and LA City Officials for other issues, sort of like lawyer Michael Cohen offered access to the President. I remember Lucks billing herself as one of “Antonio’s Girls” when that scoundrel was in office. The whole thing is a sham, and has been for years, but the number of homeless campers had never been this large in the past. In the end it is tax deductible and when questioned about the homeless massing in Venice and all along the California coast, they can proudly say that they have done their part. And in a way, they have. It is the City and the local social services that are not using that financial help wisely and are loath to show anyone their books (either set…) and either they are remiss at publicizing positive outcomes or have few to publicize.

Last year’s Venice Design Series accumulated $250,000 for ‘Case Management” that never existed, and the one unqualified person they
had claiming to do some of those duties, did not, and was hired and fired at great public expense, and replaced with more sure Venice Community Housing Corporation waste.

Until the Oversight and Accountability law is updated in this State, as it has been in others. Ethics and Transparency sadly lacking,
and Steve Clare, the real estate lawyer who owns all the VCH properties given them by a compassionate electorate, brought a
Policy Activist in as Director at 140K plus a seemingly unlimited
budget for new staff hired and fired, amidst failing the Permanent
Supportive Housing paradigm by turning it into waste and infamous
blight and serial violence on Horizon Ave, where this is also no Residential Management, so this will unavoidably occur, and does
every day.

These donated funds, like the Grants and other donations, never
used to provide exactly what Linda Lucks advertises here.

It’s helpful to understand she’s a subsidized PR Professional
that lives out of the zip code, and has personally refused
to support the suffering women who were abused and sexually
assaulted by their management, and made Patient Rights and other
official Reports making the specifics absolutely clear.

Last year while participants enjoyed synchronized swimmers
performing in a private pool on an estate, one more time
there were dozens of Pac Div LAPD responding to one of VCH
calls emergency response. Ironic as they are always suing them
and spreading Becky Dennison’s usual anti-police propaganda
from a very safe affluent surroudnings far from the zip and
the danger that has been documented by public and private parties,
which has been very easy to access.

Dennison, like Lucks, hasn’t made an uncontrolled appearance
since late 2016, and she’s only on the job two years, and at
what expense? We do know the results are nil and the millions
fly by as things get reliably worse and more dangerous w
seasonal influx.

And the folks paying ten thousand dollars a table last year,
among the hopeful architects and real estate agents that inahbit
these, had every compassionate intention and were relying on Lucks
and Clare to be presenting an honest paradigm, which they did not.

Recent Comments

Rick Swinger { Listen Up! Pollution effects Everybody! Thats includes you Billy and me and the homeless etc. We are all in the same boat here. You don't have to have a degree in Biology to understand thats Rats have killed more people than any other rodent and we have lots of them... } – 2405 9:25 AM

Billy Bathgate { NIMBY is too polite a term for the likes of arrogant pretentious jerks like you. In fact there is no word for the likes of people like you that wouldn't be censored by the owner of this site so I'll just have to save it for if we ever meet... } – 2405 6:49 AM

{ Bonin was elected by the very people who live in other areas of CD 11 and who benefit by placing ALL of the adversity in Venice. That said, had Bonin proposed this "Home of the homeless" BS (as well as the stupid "road diet" during his re-election campaign, the people... } – 2305 10:03 AM

Billy Bathgate { Elections have consequences Kip. Your homeless hating candidate for City Council didn't win. And the people of Los Angeles voted to pony up and do something about getting the homeless of L.A. off the sidewalks and into housing. Now would be a good time for your side to shut up.... } – 2205 7:49 PM

Nick Antonicello { The only way to get out of the bureaucratic clutches of LA, Garcetti and Bonin is to support cityhood for Venice. Our own Mayor and Council directly elected by Venetians with a land use body with teeth that can restrict such impositions by the far larger LA. Does Garcetti or... } – 2205 11:36 AM

Billy Bathgate { Nothing wrong with me but there is definitely something wrong with all of you who do nothing but complain 24/7 about the homeless and then oppose every move to get them housed so they won't be homeless anymore. Iflily white Brentwood or Pacific Palisades is your idea of an ideal... } – 2105 3:20 PM

{ Billy, poor is poor - These folks are drunk, drugged and/or crazy. That is what makes them "poor." Once again, anyone who opposes the crap that is going on in Venice either hates the "poor" or is a "racist" for not wanting a dangerous and possibly contagious population of "travelers"... } – 2105 1:31 PM

Will { I think you said everything. Thanks for your support. } – 2105 1:08 PM

Publius { not gonna read your press release for yourself Hawkins; it's a calculated distraction, responds to nothing; you've intentionally missed opportunities to observe what others have now had to multiply document, and that documentation is as stunning as your WILLful (ignorance) Hawkins. You and do not merit a response to your... } – 2105 11:51 AM

Will { One cannot compare the work done by a faith-based group working full time with city funds with a bunch of elected volunteers working part time with community donations. The work done by the Venice Homeless Committee is unprecedented and has gone well beyond its duties to this community in housing... } – 2105 9:57 AM

{ I LOVE that they posted them. But these homeless folks will ignore them UNLESS they get arrested on a daily basis. LAPD needs to assert their power. Its a psychological game that the neighborhood and LAPD are starting to WIN against the homeless and their hypocritical "advocates" that don't live... } – 2105 9:21 AM